New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-19
RrSSJ1y WOuAYS STORY.
Prom Rrap0tkine's Russian and treneh Y

From Rrapotknes Rassian and trsneh Prison l,,, .,
Madame O, hOutOuzOn, was founu BulV vi
opening a school for peasants children independently
Ok tao Ministry Of Public Instruction A hcr crime ",
Was not penal and a., moreover she was married 10
foreigner General G0urbo merely ordered her 10 20
the frontier TINS Is how sae d9ScGS' TSs
journey from Ct Petersburg to Prussia ,iiAil slt"
extracts from her narrative without comment, nereiy
promising that It's accuracy even 10 inc iinuoS' u'
tail, Is absolutely unlmpcachaDlc. -,
was sent ~ Vino with fifty prsoners-men and
women. IrVm the railway station we were tdhoh "
tho town prison and kept there Tor TWO hOsi i"'o -.
night In an open yard under drcnchins RAIN Az
lat pusho into DARK corridor anu oVuhteu,
Aftor many Oaths ami much foul Language the hio
wa ilglod, and ! found myself In spacious room IN
which lt Impossible To tako step In any dlrec
ton without eadng ON tho women who were seepins
on the floor. Two women who occupied Dei tOoA
pity on me and invited mo to share II with them
from de scenes Of yesterday the female prisoners
-assassns and thleves-wero 50 kind " me that Dy,
and by / grow Gala Next night we were TUNED
T IH tho from Yard 'DG for ps.'On start ~ under
heavy rain do not know how happened TO escape
tho sts Of the slers as the prisoners under
stand tho eyolutions and performed them Under
saving that they ought to be bcatenworc put In
irons and sent TO the train in the teeth Of the
Onsr S sha be- chan % Hyed at KC1So spent
tho whole day In going from one police station 70 an
for women. Here spent week among muilerosses,
thieves and women arrested by MISTAKE. Misfortune
unites the unfortunate and everybody tried TO make
Ifo moro tocrabe for the rest all very kind to
me and did their best 10 console on tho previous
day | had eaten nothing, for the day the prisoners
arc brought to tho prison they receive food 50
tainted from hunger, and tho prisoners gave me Of
their bread and kind as they could be. The
female Inspector however, wa on duty she wa+
shouting out such shameless Oatls as few drunken
men would use.
aAftcr a weeks stay In Kovno was sent on foot to
tho nort town. After three days march We came to
Marismpo my feet wero woundfd ana my Etocklnss
fuIl OF blood Tho soldiers advised me 10 ask for a
car but preferred ply ical suffering 10 tho cOnnu
ous clrsng foul language OF tho chiefs. All tho
gamo they took before their commander, ana nc
remarked that had walked three days and so cOuld
walk a 10 nth. We came neXt day 10 Wolkowsk from
whence we wero 10 be sent to Prussia and hve
others put Professionally In the depot me
womcn's department In ruins, 20 we we're taken
the mems. -,
TO sit down, except on tho dTcadfuy filthy door.
There was even no straw and tho stencil on tho moor
set me vomiting Instantly. Here spent two days
and two nj ghts passing the whole time at the window
ON tho third day a soldier OF tho depot Jew, took
me into his roOm tiny CELL where aged with his
"Tho prisoners told me that many OF them werc
detained by mistake for seven eight months
awaiting their papers before being sent across tho
a seven months stay I'm this sewer without changs
OF linen. They advised me 10 give the Jaller money,
az he would then send mo to Prussia Immediately
mt had boon six weeks tho way already and my
letter had not reached people AZ last the soldier
allowed mo 10 10 the po-toice win ms WIG ana
/ sent a registered letter TO st. Petersburg" Madame
c has Influential kinsflI In tln capital. and In
ioy day. IN. GUverr"r General tolegraphel for her
saysl were discovered Immediately, and l was sent
20 Eydtkunen and set at liberty IL must be owned
that tho picture Is horrible. But II Is not whit
0vcrc areesi. To such OF us Russians havo adj 10
scene looks normal. Oaths filth, brutality, bribery,
blows hungor-these the essentials OF every osr0g
and Of every depot from Kovno to kamchatha, and
from Archangcl TO Erzerum.